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A Plague of Lies: A Charles de Luc Novel

A Plague of Lies: A Charles de Luc Novel

Rock, Judith

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Series: Charles Du Luc Novel, Book 3

Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0425253104
ISBN13: 9780425253106
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Oct 2 2012
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
In her historic mysteries The Rhetoric of Death and The Eloquence of Blood, Judith Rock created an atmosphere that takes you back to fascinating and dangerous seventeenth-century Paris so well that I suspect her of being a time-traveler who's been there (Ariana Franklin, national bestselling author of A Murderous Procession). Now, the latest novel to feature Charles du Luc finds the ex-soldier-turned-Jesuit caught up in royal intrigue...

Versailles, 1687

Madame de Maintenon is King Louis XIV's second wife. The daughter of a minor noble of ill-repute, she has not forgiven the king's Jesuit confessor for encouraging him to withhold the title of Queen from her. To placate her, the prestigious Louis le Grand Jesuit school has sent a delegation--including her distant cousin Pere Jouvancy and rhetoric teacher Charles du Luc--to Versailles with a gift of reliquary.

But while the Sun King's palace might be spectacular, this visit is anything but pleasant. Their first night, a courtier dies, and court whispers claim poison. Then the Jesuit delegation falls direly ill, and a palace gardener is found murdered. Fear grips a court already on edge. In the midst of all this, Charles learns that one of his students is in love with the king's rebellious (and betrothed) daughter, and may ruin not only himself, but all of them ...

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